MTG's ‘Special Interest Aliens’ Bill Deserves Democrat Support
Todd Bensman | Apr 11, 2025
Almost anything that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) says or does tends to draw lightning from dismissive political opponents on the aisle’s other side. So too did her “Special Interest Alien Reporting Act” that just advanced in the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee. Her bill would require the Department of Homeland Security to start sharing with Americans on a public website, for the first time, the damagingly long-held state secret of how many special interest aliens (SIAs) – aliens from countries where Islamic terrorist organizations operate – are illegally crossing the border each month and their countries of origin.
But whatever guff Green is catching, she’s on to an important issue here that deserves respectful bipartisan consideration by her opponents and support from many more of her natural allies as this nascent piece of legislation survives to move forward.
I say this and suggest an amendment or two below as the author of the only published book about Special Interest Aliens (SIAs), America’s Covert Border War, the Untold Story of the Nation’s Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration (Bombardier Books, March 2021), and of the recent three-part reportorial “First Blood” series about the recent confirmed terror attack by an SIA border crosser from Mauritania who struck in Chicago just this past October as a result of a problem Green’s bill would fix. I’ve also testified before Congress about the SIA matter.
https://townhall.com/columnists/toddbensman/2025/04/11/mtgs-special-interest-aliens-bill-deserves-democrat-support-n2655388
